The force and grace of a Snowy Owl during take-off is always a breath-taking sight to behold.

Canon 7D with the 400L f5.6 lens @ 1/2000, f9.0, ISO 200.

Here I cropped away a part of the top to format the image for a possible 8 x 16 framing. A zillion snow reflection spots were cloned away. Some Gaussian blur added to bottom and top of image.

Cheers,

Mike